Cover Boy...

....so awhile back I had sent a picture in of Jacob into an association we belong to (Holstein Association USA) when they were having a picture contest. Well a week ago I received an email asking to use one of Jacob's pictures for promotional material. I of course said "yes", and yes I will post the picture later. But it turns out that they are going to use a picture of Jacob for the cover of their 2009 Holstein Foundation Calender.....ok, so you won't see his face but its a pic of the back of his head.....but its a cute head!

Sick twist of fate

So.....it has been a long 2 weeks with lots to report. It starts off Jacob and I heading to my parents on the 26th of June so I could drop him off for his week long visit and my departure to TX to visit a very good friend and her new baby. That evening we received a call that a very good friend of the family was hit by a car while walking her dog on a back road with her sister. Absolute shock sent in. We had heard it was a 17 year old boy and she was life flighted to a hospital...still shock. We knew she was alive and was thrown approx. 20 feet into a bush. The bush broke her fall and probably saved her life. In the process her dog as hit as well....that dog was her life. As the events folded out, the 17 year old flipped the car after he hit her after loosing control. The next person on the scene was a local doctor, godsend. He stayed with her the whole way. The following person was on his way to the local vet, godsend. He took her dog to the vet, hopefully to save its life. This friend is a dear person and would never do anything to anyone, as is her family. I was so bitter towards the teenager who hit her. Not much sleep happened that night.

The next day we were due to go to a Family Day at a local amusement park where upon talking with another friend I found out who the 17 year old was. Her sister, who goes to school with him found out through the "vine". The boy is my best friend, who I was about ready to go and visit.....her brother. He is not a "bad" kid at all, very smart, responsible and usually a nerdy driver. I was absolutely speechless....it was a sick twist of fate. For some reason my attitude changed toward it all...I couldn't' be pissed so much anymore but yet felt like I should. My loyalties were really divided in a sense.

As the details unfolded, the 17 year old said someone came into his lane, he over corrected and then veered to the left, hit my friend, over corrected again and flipped the car. I guess there was a witness that came forward and backed his story, but then again, does it really matter? Here he was, 2 months into his license, celebrating a birthday, no drugs/drinks...again, he is that clean. And this is something he will live with forever, undoubtedly.

My friend has survived, but had a list of injuries....a broken collarbone, broken pelvis, compound fractures in her leg with with be a hindrance for the rest of her life, cracked bone in her neck, bruised kidneys, spleen and liver. Thank God she is alive, but what a long road ahead. I spoke to her before I left and the only thing she said she needed when asked, was a new ass since hers hurt so much. So here I sat leaving one friend to see another who were more connected then they would ever know, but yet did not know each other.

The boy's family has suffered too mind you. Aside from this accident, they have dealt with a layoff that has been his fathers job for well over 20 years (manufacturing is dying there), a sister/aunt who is dying of cancer and then this.....the cup runeth over. I am sure the insurance companies are going to suing for her, understandable. I feel for them as well. They are a good family as well, but nobody deserves that either.

So I am torn, feeling for both families......my heart breaks for both of them and I hate to be the link in between. I have not been able to let my brain stop thinking about it....that could have been Jacob driving down the road....that could of been me walking...anything is possible. Now I understand how the soaps on TV are created, except now I am living it......